Emotionalism Following Brain Damage

Allman, Peter

doi:10.1155/1991/209837

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“…In the study of 30 patients referred to above, none fulfilled all of Poeck's criteria for pathological crying and no distinct subtypes of crying were identified. It seems that the components of crying combine in a more complex and varied way than commonly held stereotyped views would suggest (Allman et al, 1991a).…”

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“…certain brain diseases, such as hemiplegia, brain wasting, and senile decay, have a special tendency to induce weeping'. The terminology used in describing this phenomenon is confused (Allman, 1989). Terms such as pathological crying, emotional lability, emotional incontinence, and pseudobulbar emotionality are often used synonymously.…”

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Depressive disorders and emotionalism following stroke

Allman

1991

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Depressive disorders and emotionalism following stroke

Allman

1991

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…Activation, mood, emotional conditions and brain state Activation, mood, emotional conditions and brain state can interact in an unpredictable way (Allman, 1991;Auerbach, 1986;Peper et al, 1991;Stark stein et al, 1990). Depressive conditions may blur the performance level of a brain-damaged patient to a considerable degree (Allman, 1991;Stark stein et al, 1990).…”

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“…Depressive conditions may blur the performance level of a brain-damaged patient to a considerable degree (Allman, 1991;Stark stein et al, 1990). Furthermore, hormone and neurotransmitter levels as well as nutritional habits certainly influence outcome after brain damage as they are already of considerable importance in subjects without brain damage (Benton et al, 1994;Buchanan et al, 1992).…”

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Commonalities and Discrepancies in the Relationships between Behavioural Outcome and the Results of Neuroimaging in Brain-Damaged Patients

Markowitsch

Calabrese

1996

Behavioural Neurology

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Variables which are of influence in establishing clear predictions of neuropsychological alterations from neuroradiological data (and vice versa) are documented and discussed. It is concluded that personality factors and the kind and locus of brain lesions are the most crucial determinants. The locus of the brain damage may have cumulative effects either when it is situated in a strategic place (usually within the white matter, affecting interneuronal communication) or when various types of lesions appear superimposed (combination of focal and diffuse lesions). Consequently, the consideration of the patient's personality background and of as many neuropsychological facts as possible may considerably increase the validity of outcome predictions. When static or dynamic neuroimaging fails to show abnormalities in spite of obvious psychological alterations, an intensive neuropsychological documentation may even replace neuroradiology. Keywords: Brain damage -Magnetic resonance imaging -Computer tomography -Neuropsychological assessment INTRODUCTIONThe availability of cranial computer tomography (CT) has revolutionized the diagnostic power for patients with brain damage, and the subsequent appearance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging has further increased and refined the power of relating brain tissue changes to behavioural alterations. Nevertheless, there are numerous case reports in which neuroimaging and neuropsychological data indicate a different prognosis, thereby leading to an improper rehabilitation treatment of the patient.Part of the discrepancy may be explained by the false assumption of linear relationships between lesion size and behavioural outcome (e.g. Irle, 1987Irle, , 1990Grafman et al., 1986), but other parts are most likely due to insensitive measurement on the imaging or the psychological level. Alesch et al. (1991), for instance, found that CT is quite insensitive to the identification of lymphomas although gliomas are readily detected. Similarly, although subdural empyemas and most sterile effusions and chronic subdural haematomas appear similar in CT scans, they are (~ 1996 Rapid Science Publishers much more readily distinguishable on the basis of signal intensity differences in MRI (Takamura et al., 1995);and Kertesz et al. (1987) concluded from their analyses that MRI surpasses CT scanning in the early detection of cerebral infarcts. CT on the other hand should be the method of choice to rule out intracerebral bleeding when a patient is screened initially. For detecting anatomical correlates of abnormal behavioural functioning, such as in psychogenic amnesia, conventional static imaging techniques have been useless up to now, although dynamic methods, such as PET imaging, may reveal cerebral blood flow changes indicative of abnormal processing (Amsterdam and Mozley, 1992;Markus et al., 1992).Congruence and incongruence of neuropsychology and neuroradiology are the topics of this commentary. We will first illustr...

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“…A typical feature is emotionalism, defined by Allman (1991) as 'a heightened tendency to cry (or rarely laugh) such that crying occurs more frequently, more easily, more vigorously, or in circumstances that previously would have been out of character'. Given the evidence for the involvement of cerebral laterality in the control of emotion, we investigated the relationship between emotionalism and "'"Tc-HMPAO-SPECT patterns in 14 DAT patients.…”

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Affective disorders related to spect patterns in alzheimer's disease: A study of emotionalism

Lebert

Pasquier

Steinling

et al. 1994

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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SUMMARYMood disorder in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) is heterogeneous in presentation. A typical feature is emotionalism, defined by Allman (1991) as 'a heightened tendency to cry (or rarely laugh) such that crying occurs more frequently, more easily, more vigorously, or in circumstances that previously would have been out of character'. Given the evidence for the involvement of cerebral laterality in the control of emotion, we investigated the relationship between emotionalism and "'"Tc-HMPAO-SPECT patterns in 14 DAT patients. Rightfleft frontolateral asymmetry was significantly greater in the eight emotionalism-positive patients than in the six emotionalism-negative patients.

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Emotionalism Following Brain Damage

Cited by 15 publications

References 14 publications

Depressive disorders and emotionalism following stroke

Depressive disorders and emotionalism following stroke

Commonalities and Discrepancies in the Relationships between Behavioural Outcome and the Results of Neuroimaging in Brain-Damaged Patients

Affective disorders related to spect patterns in alzheimer's disease: A study of emotionalism

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